• qyron
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    394 months ago

    Maybe they will be investing towards RISC-V chips?

      • qyron
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        113 months ago

        Good. Pump that up. I want to be able to run my favorite open OS on open hardware.

        • Refurbished Refurbisher
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          213 months ago

          Worth noting that just because a CPU uses the RISC-V instruction set does not make it open hardware; it just makes it possible for it to be open hardware, but it’s still up to the copyright holder to release the source files and design as open source.

            • Refurbished Refurbisher
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              43 months ago

              That’s true, but open source software is generally written in high level, portable languages that can be compiled to multiple CPU architectures without changing the code, so proprietary software is really what would have any problems running, and even then, there are x86 emulators like Box86/64 and FEX out there and can even work transparently using systemd-binfmt.

              • @emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works
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                33 months ago

                At the application level? Yes. At the OS / package level? It’s still a work in progress. And you need the latter to use the former.

          • qyron
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            63 months ago

            Still, better than fully proprietary hardware.

            • Refurbished Refurbisher
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              In a small way, yes, in that the software ecosystem built around it would work on future open hardware, but the hardware could absolutely still be fully, 100% proprietary.

    • @boonhet@lemm.ee
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      53 months ago

      Woule be best case scenario for pretty much everyone except, well, all the companies currently in the space. And western global hegemony.

  • @Derp@lemmy.ml
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    233 months ago

    This reads like fake news. No publication date, no sources listed, very vague and self-contradictory on the details. How is no other news outlet corroborating this?

    I’d take this one with a huge grain of salt.

  • @breakingcups@lemmy.world
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    114 months ago

    That’s going to make things very difficult for them short-term. Medium-term too. Bets are still off on long-term.

  • andrew_bidlaw
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    63 months ago

    I can’t read the article for it opens some 1x1 gif at loading, but I suspect they’d only need to write a long form proof of why they need to use exactly that foreign brand for their work etc, and probably if they also have the leverage to do so (so many get filtered out, maybe). That’s how it works in Russia for plenty of years after we proclaimed we’d replace imported goods with something we don’t even produce lol.

    • @Anticorp@lemmy.world
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      23 months ago

      Precisely. They’ve finally stolen enough IP to make replicas of these banned chips and keep all the profits.

  • hash
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    33 months ago

    Reflexively thought this was the onion. Can someone explain yo me how this isn’t idiocy?

    • @moody@lemmings.world
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      223 months ago

      China’s a big market, and banning three major brands from being used means those brands will fight against Trump’s trade war so they can get access to the market again. There’s no way Intel, AMD, and Nvidia will be happy to lose all that money.

      • @Wade@lemmy.world
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        33 months ago

        Will they really lose much money though? Chip makers (NVIDIA especially) have practically been able to sell everything they can produce since before the start of COVID, so I doubt they will lose a lot from this

        • @theonlytruescotsman@sh.itjust.works
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          33 months ago

          The Chinese consumer market is larger than the US and EU markets, and is growing, not shrinking. On top of that the Chinese business market is growing and is growing extremely quickly. The backbone of either market in the 21st century is computerized goods.

          This is also a sign that the multiple domestic architectures are good enough to act as drop in replacements for at least government work, so business and consumer uses aren’t too far behind.

    • @Anticorp@lemmy.world
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      13 months ago

      China has their own chip now built upon stolen R&D and they’re going to make sure it’s successful.